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President Doumergue and French officials, numberless, bustled to welcome Mulai Yusef, Sultan of Morocco, Amir-el-Mumenin (Prince of True Believers). Soon that portly sovereign was installed in the magnificent residence of Baroness Roger, lent for his accommodation...
Divertissement. It is the duty of M. Theodore Steeg, French Resident-General in the French Protectorate of Morocco, to "advise" (command) the Sultan as to his every official act. Through this politic subterfuge, the despotism of Mulai Yusef, unrestricted by any law, civil or religious, is employed with great convenience by France. Last week General Steeg "advised" his puppet-Sultan, though informally, to observe the dancing of the so-called Charleston by Occidental females of fashion at the Chateau de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne...
Docile, Mulai Yusef went with M. Steeg. Pressmen hovered. Many a female Charlestoned as though intent on spraining both her ankles. The Sultan's brow clouded in thought...
Moros. Senator Hadjib Butu, representing Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago (where Moros predominate), also visited Oracle Thompson. He promised to introduce him to the Sultan of Sulu when he traveled southward; he told how Mohammedan Moros preferred U. S. rule to that of Christian Filipinos. Said Senator Butu: "The situation we face reminds me of the story of Joseph and his brethren in your Bible. The Moro looks up to the American as his father and upon the Filipino as his brother. Because of the love between Joseph and his father, his brothers threw him into a pit and left...
Each took a pen, dipped, scratched. By their dipping and scratching they validated in perpetuity a Franco-Spanish pact exiling Abd-el-Krim, famed captured Sultan of the Riff (TIME, June 7), to the island of Réunion or Bourbon...